The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-04-14
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
What the Newspapers Say Of Men and
Women of More Less Fame.
The president is all expert in rose garden

What the Newspapers Say Of Men and
Women of More Less Fame.
The president is an expert in rose garden
ing.
Mark Twain talks of endowing a home for
pumped out humorists.
Gen. Boulanger's wife is rabid hater of
England and everything English.
Smith Higgins is the king of the dry goods
business of New York and worth $50, coo, 600.
NJ. de Lesseps is about to bring out a vol
ume of Souvenirs" covering period of forty
years in his eventful life.
Ahmed Ben Ahmar, an Algerian who has
just died, killed eighty lions and as many
panthers during his time.
Comedian W. j. Florence is going to Lon
don soon, and while there will be the guest Of
Henry Irving.
The health of James D. Fish continues to
grow worse, and it is thonght that he will be
pardoned to avoid his death in prison.
Anna Dickinson says she has had sew
eral offers to go upon the dramatic stage
She thinks she viii go to Europe.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker carries the
idea of female emancipation so far as to de-
mand that half the police force in large cities
consist of women.
The Cardiff (Vales) Western Mail an
nounces the death at the age of "a of Mr.. c.
James Dyson Perrins, of the firm of Lea G.
Perrins, the makers of the famous Worces-
ter sauce.
A. J. Drexel, Philadelphia's millionsire
banker, has built a Greek temple of exqui-
sitely carved white Italian marble to be used
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thick.
Phillippoteaux, the celebrated French
painter, whose "Siege of Paris" has been
greatly admired in this country, is now paint
ing cyclorama of Niagara Falls
The widow of Anthony Trolope is described
as charming old lady with lovely white
hair. She is still one of the lights of the
literary society in London.
Friar Anderledy, the successor of Friar
Beckx as superior general of the Society Of
Jesuits, is famous as linguist. He can speak
and write every important language in the
world.
Bob Ford, who killed Jesse James, is en-
ployed as a waiter in a Santa Fe hotel Bob
| Littell and another member of the old James
gang are also in Santa Fe, dead broke, and
hangers on about the saloons.
Mrs Helen Cougar has sent an open letter
| to the women of Kansas, who are to vote in
the municipal elections, saying: ''You will
be required to give your name. Do not give
your husbands name or your pet name, but
the one by which You were christened."
Senator and Mrs Leland Stanford spent
| Monday in Albany perfecting arrangements
| for the Lathrop Memorial Home for aged
! Whila tbpra Senator Stamford SaiI
that during his Boston visit he had decided on
the plans for the Stanford university build
ings. The buildings will be grouped in a
! quadrangle, will be constructed of California
sandstone, and will be Moorish in design
| Work upon seven of the buildings will be be-
gun this Summer.
Gen. Sheridan has sunny corner room in
the new war department building fitted up
with furniture of his own choosing Several
cabinets are filled with Indian pottery and
curios, and the walls are covered with paint
ings of western scenery with buffalos and
Indians in the foreground. Black Kettles
war belt is as dear to him as a peachblow
vase, and Sioux war club is the chief treas
ure in the collection.
Adelina Patti is in her 47th year and Lilli
Lehman in her 45th. Both are singing
Supeib biJ, anu lliidtcIoe duulehCoS die SlISi4-
bound by their beautiful voices. The fact,
says The Musical Courier, is a lesson for
yJung vocalists who are ambitious to be full
fiedged soloists in a few summers, and who
expect to acquire before they are 25 what can
alone come with long experience and normal
development.
Mr.. S. G. Lister, the silk king" of Eng
land, is more than 20 years old, but stout and
hearty, and busy every day with the concerns
of bis great factories and landed estates. He
invented wool combing by machinery, velvet
and plush making by machinery, and the
utilization of silk waste. He spent 81, ,000, 900
In developing those industries, and has made
more than $3.50, 900 year out of each of
them. He says he rever went in for any
thing in which he did not confidently see over
$3.50 900 year.